Jazz as an American artform would never have evolved without Louis Moreau Gottschalk. A phenomenon in his lifetime but relegated to the status of parlor pianist today, Gottschalk nevertheless was the ...

At a time when New Orleans, its people and its musicians are suffering, we'd like to pay tribute to its rich musical history with a look at one of the city's most remarkable natives, Louis Moreau ...

From the mid-1850s until his death in December 1869, the New Orleans-born pianist Louis Moreau Gottschalk was also a prolific composer. During that brief decade and a half, he is believed to have ...

Get more of a good thing! Our weekly newsletter highlights our top stories, our special offers, and upcoming jazz events near you.

A sculpture honoring Louis Moreau Gottschalk, a famous pianist, composer and performer, is now on display at the Green-Wood Cemetery. Gottschalk (listen to him here) was considered the most famous ...

Like the reigning romantic heroes of mid-19th century musical Europe, Chopin and Liszt, New Orleans-born Louis Moreau Gottschalk (1829-69) had sex appeal aplenty. As a Wunderkind pianist-composer in ...

Helen Beedle knows her Gottschalk. She also, as a professor of music at Lehigh University and a pianist, knows a lot of other musicians of the period but it’s with Louis Moreau Gottschalk (1829-1869) ...

In 1861, Louis Moreau Gottschalk borrowed the overture to an opera by Etienne Mehul. The opera was called Le Jeune Henri, or "Young Henry." After Gottschalk arranged it for multiple pianos, it was ...